Michael received diverse distributed systems experience from Mobile, Online Gaming, Special Effects/Animation, and Government industries that led to an appreciation of Erlang for creating maintainable systems. A focus on real live systems with a pragmatic view on efficiency directed the creation of the Cloudi framework for free private cloud computing.

Cloudi is a free Erlang based private cloud for efficient processing in C or C++ to maximize hardware utilization with dynamic load balancing. Cloudi relies on external databases for keeping the work fault-tolerant by preserving the work data. Implementing work for the cloud is as simple as declaring the cloud interface. The presentation provides an introduction to the Cloudi framework.